Word: auto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Defending Champion Sammy Snead of West Virginia and U.S. Open Champion Gary Middlecoff of Tennessee were the prematch favorites. Bantam Ben Hogan and breezy Jimmy Demaret, both Texans, were the second choices. Hogan, patiently reconstructing his game after his 1949 auto accident, was unmistakably the sentimental favorite. His comeback had backfired last winter, but he had been toiling over the Augusta course for a week, determined to win the one major championship that had eluded him all through his career...
...great U.S. postwar boom. It was taken for granted, just as it was taken, for granted that the boom would taper off-by mid-1950 at the very latest. But last week the tapering-off was hard to find. Instead, the news from the stock market, the auto companies, the homebuilders, and even from the analytical economists was optimistic (see below). The boom was not only big-it seemed to have something of a franchise on the future...
Spring, which normally perks up the U.S. auto industry's sales, this year brought such a skyrocketing whoosh that automen rubbed their eyes in amazement. The customers were more surprised. Only a few months ago they could have bought all but a few makes from almost any dealer's floor. By last week the rush for new cars was so heavy that buyers will have to wait as long as three months for the most popular makes...
...many of its plants on double-overtime Saturday shifts. Ford, which boosted production 45% in the first quarter to 459,481 units, was talking of six-months' production which would nearly equal 1924's alltime record of 982,415 model Ts. Studebaker had upped its first-quarter auto production 52%, to 74,-725 units...
Though the two young leading players act with too much emotional energy, Side Street mostly fulfills its modest melo dramatic intentions. Its climax, an auto mobile chase near the Manhattan water front and in the deserted financial district on a Sunday morning, is sharpened by exciting location shots from high overhead showing the cars darting through narrow skyscraper canyons. Sidney Boehm's straightaway script, if somewhat patly plotted, contains some authentic-sounding police talk. There are also solid minor per formances by Paul Kelly as a captain of detectives, James Craig as a thug and Jean Hagen...